--- title: telly says spaghetti grows on trees, real?? its april 1 — April Fools' Day and how magic tricks… · tree and pragmatics description: telly says spaghetti grows on trees, real?? its april 1 Test 11 · ★ of lesson 279 «April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/t11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [April Fools' Day and how magic tricks…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/) / t11 # Test 11 · ★ · April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work telly says spaghetti grows on trees, real?? its april 1 **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** telly, spaghetti · **What happens:** say, grow · **To what, where:** trees · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 279 «April Fools' Day and how magic tricks work» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks/#t11). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks:t11:1 # text = telly says spaghetti grows on trees, real?? its april 1 1 telly telly NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 spaghetti spaghetti NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ?? ?? ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 april april NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | telly | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **grow** | present | spaghetti | | | trees | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Yes, but only in warm countries ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks:t11:o1:1 # text = Yes, but only in warm countries 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 4 only only ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} No, that was a famous BBC April Fool joke ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks:t11:o2:1 # text = No, that was a famous BBC April Fool joke 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 10 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 6 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 7 BBC BBC PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 9 Fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 joke joke NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | past | that | a famous April Fool joke | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} No, it grows underground like potatoes ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks:t11:o3:1 # text = No, it grows underground like potatoes 1 No no INTJ UH Polarity=Neg 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 underground underground ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 potatoes potato NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | it | | | | | like potatoes; underground *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Yes, it grows on bushes in Italy and they pick it in summer ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:279-april-fools-and-magic-tricks:t11:o4:1 # text = Yes, it grows on bushes in Italy and they pick it in summer 1 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Italy Italy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 pick pick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | it | | | bushes in Italy | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bush=Location | | 2 | **pick** | present | bushes *= bush* | it | | | summer | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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